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Hunk House
After scourging gay Hollywood in last year's "Tricks of the Trade, " Tyler turns his satiric sights on reality TV with incendiary results. Those with a taste for mischief will enjoy this heady concoction of plot-heavy, door-slamming farce mixed with gay sex and Tinseltown name-dropping.
- GenresGayGay FictionLGBT
289 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2002
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May 25, 2021Page reached: Pg 160
The only good thing about this novel was the adonises on its cover. Now I know what it means when a book is described as plot-heavy. The writing was surface level and the formating was a joke. The few steamy sex scenes were not enough to keep me going (but I lived for them omg yaaaaaaasssss) and the drama is too elementary to keep going on.
The only good thing about this novel was the adonises on its cover. Now I know what it means when a book is described as plot-heavy. The writing was surface level and the formating was a joke. The few steamy sex scenes were not enough to keep me going (but I lived for them omg yaaaaaaasssss) and the drama is too elementary to keep going on.
August 15, 2012
After scourging gay Hollywood in his debut novel, Tricks of the Trade, Tyler turns his satiric sights on reality TV with incendiary results. Those with a taste for malicious mischief will enjoy this heady concoction of plot-heavy, door-slamming farce mixed with explicit gay sex and Tinseltown name-dropping (with the latter fictionalized just enough to avoid legal action). Although it's generally all in good fun, there's a trip to a dungeon (run by the priest at St. Ethel Mertz the Divine) that may separate the men from the boys. When a scandal gets Hamilton Peabody demoted to the position of programming director at a small local TV station in Dulcit, Iowa, he comes up with an idea to get himself back into L.A. and the limelight. He creates the reality TV/game show Hunk House (a mixture of Survivor, Real World and Queer as Folk) to resuscitate his career. Six gay men volunteer to be holed up in a haunted Victorian mansion equipped with cameras to record their every move, and one household member gets voted "out" each week. However, the small town can only find five gay contestants, so Bull, the station's straight repairman, is coerced into joining the show. Readers may be able to guess the results but not all the twists that the story takes to get there.
July 9, 2011
Fluff- summer beach reading
February 1, 2009
Sexy, super funny and down right pornographic, the men of Hunk House make for a great beach read.
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